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Washington Coast Cleanup day-Shi Shi beach

Because the Coast is such an epic drive for me i chose to drive in a day early, and hang out overnight. Instead of backpacking on Shi Shi, i chose to car camp on Hobuck beach, since i knew i would be hauling a trash load, and i did not want to haul overnight gear and trash.
When i arrived at Hobuck beach the weather was beautiful. In fact it does not get much better on the rainy Olympic coast. Once in the camp ground i set up camp.....
and then explored the area a little bit, and watched the silly antics of some of the beach goers. Great place to take some candid photos.

I even set up for a short time lapse of the sun set. Although it kind of fizzled out, and was not as spectacular as i hoped.

After sunset i retired to the hammock, and watched a movie on my zune. When the move was over i drifted off to sleep the earliest in the i have in years. Slept like a baby. 4am...i woke to intense rain. My Super Fly handled the Olympic rain forest monsoon easily. By 6:30 am i started cooking breakfast under the shelter of the tarp. Still dumping cats and dogs. By 7:30ish, i turned in my volunteer registration form, and drove down to Shi Shi trail head.
Shi Shi beach trail starts out on a nice board walk.
But then deteriorates into ankle deep boot sucking mud. There's little in terms of elevation change, until the end just before the beach. It took less that twenty minutes to gather up 7 trash bags of trash.

Sounds like a great trip. I love Shi Shi beach and the area around there. I do not get up there as much as I would like. It's amazing the amount of trash that washes up... sad really.

My in-laws have a place right on the beach at Pacific Beach. Every time I go stay it seems like I spend most of the time picking up trash as I walk the beach. Some days I feel I'd rather just sit inside and read as it's a bit depressing to see such wonderful areas littered with trash.

Kudos for making the long drive and hauling out such a mountain of litter.